I recall near the end of Pohl’s “Midas World” collection, a robot finds his neighbors calling him “Spam can”, for being too welcoming to the humans who moved in.
There’s also the consideration that trash talking the nice people who might rescue you from the death that you couldn’t organize to save yourselves from isn’t exactly prudent.
1. The Baron has nothing against windups in general. It’s just *this* particular gang of windups he hates. They do seem to be neighbors so personality clashes or border disputes in the past are not beyond the realm of reason.
2. Terry Pratchett once described Cohen the Barbarian as “one of those prejudiced people who made themselves extra annoying to well-intentioned liberals by getting along with the people they were prejudiced against better than the well-intentioned liberals did.”.
The Baron being another example of this by dint of not letting what he thinks of groups get in the way of how he treats individuals is also within the realm of possibility. ^_^
Now, listen up, bozos, that’s the way to do it.
You get your windups from the note-a-ree.
Don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it
Funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free
Now, don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
Let me tell you, those bots aren’t dumb.
Maybe get assistance from the robot wringer.
Maybe get assistance from the drive-as-thumb.
We gotta work with microwave ovens.
All the kitchen price warranties.
We organize these refrigerators.
We organize these color TVs.
See the little robot from the Whimsey park and rakeoff.
Yeah, Baron, he’s the compere.
That little robot has his own safe server,
That little robot, he’s a racist square.
We gotta work with microwave ovens.
All the kitchen price warranties.
We organize these refrigerators.
We organize these color TVs.
You should’a learned to spray the flamethrower.
You should’a learned to spray those guns.
Look at that robot, got some fusion in her power.
Yeah, wow, part of Annex One.
And who’s up there, what’s that, some battle noises?
You’re hangin’ round this tourney like a detainee.
Oh, don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
You’ll be funny ‘bout somethin’, and the bots are free.
We gotta work with microwave ovens.
All the kitchen price warranties.
We organize these refrigerators.
We organize these color TVs.
Listen up.
Now don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
We’ll get the windups from the note-a-ree.
Don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it,
Funny ‘bout somethin’ and the bots are free.
Just be funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free.
Just be funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free
(I want the, I want the, I want the note-a-ree…)
Well, I couldn’t get anything done on Monday ’cause my phone / cable / net access was cut off till mid-afternoon, after which time my life tends to be busy. (Retirement does *not* give you more time for anything.)
“Over the Idaho border” . . . but before that, over a chunk of Olympic peninsula, over Puget Sound, over the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia urban and suburban corridor, over the whole damn Cascade mountain range, and over a zillion miles of western Washington state, first.
Do these people think they’re in Spokane or something?
So, she builds one with a bunch of coathangers, sends herself over with a bunch more and builds another . . , yeah, I guess it could work.
“A Queen of Lovetron is not bound by space or time!”
Actually, now I’m wondering — does Tip still have the coathanger-teleporter in his closet, or did it destroy itself in the process of teleporting Tigerlily, or did Tip dismantle it because he needed room for clothing, duh?
This Robot Racism remind me to a chapter of ‘Zannen Jokanbu Black General-san’
where a Robot Yakuza (yes, that a thing in that manga) express his concern that his underlings (robot too) likes ‘Real Robot’ more than ‘Super Robot’.
Hardly all that can be. Did Claire Connelly and Zombie Ben Franklin ever pursue their relationship? Did Dr. Haller ever catch up with Mr. Berk? With the safe house found deserted, what happened to the other cobras?
I always read on this site anyway, so it doesn’t make much difference to me, but it may interest you to know that goComics still doesn’t have today’s comic up.
You say it was in your e-mail? Because it wasn’t in mine. And Saturday’s isn’t in my email either. And the most recent one on the goComics website (as of 4:30am) is from May 2nd.
Never thought I’d hear ‘robot racism’ in a sentence. (Lighten up, will you lil’ pony.)
so long as he’s not your li’l pony
There’s an old comic book that involves it between blue and orange robots.
I recall near the end of Pohl’s “Midas World” collection, a robot finds his neighbors calling him “Spam can”, for being too welcoming to the humans who moved in.
Nice use of the Uhura’s Phaser gambit, there.
There’s also the consideration that trash talking the nice people who might rescue you from the death that you couldn’t organize to save yourselves from isn’t exactly prudent.
The Baron has never really shown any evidence of having any social graces whatsoever.
In the words of Terry Pratchett, the Baron has “charisn’tma”. It’s effective for some things, not usually those things dealing with people.
Steam powered robot: “just the sort of comment I’d expect from one of you elitist, sissy _electrical_ models.”
(Isn’t his pal Monstro windup? He’s got a key in his back, or dorsal fin as the case may be)
(token friend?)
Also M seems to be rather popular among the cybernetic crowd
2 possibilities:
1. The Baron has nothing against windups in general. It’s just *this* particular gang of windups he hates. They do seem to be neighbors so personality clashes or border disputes in the past are not beyond the realm of reason.
2. Terry Pratchett once described Cohen the Barbarian as “one of those prejudiced people who made themselves extra annoying to well-intentioned liberals by getting along with the people they were prejudiced against better than the well-intentioned liberals did.”.
The Baron being another example of this by dint of not letting what he thinks of groups get in the way of how he treats individuals is also within the realm of possibility. ^_^
I think the Baron hates everyone equally.
“Robots shaped like children’s toys? Man, I hate those guys.”
1. and 2. strike me as a class conflict.
Now now there’s no need to get wound up over another robot’s power source.
(*rimshot*)
The Baron just doesn’t see it as the key to success.
Now, listen up, bozos, that’s the way to do it.
You get your windups from the note-a-ree.
Don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it
Funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free
Now, don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
Let me tell you, those bots aren’t dumb.
Maybe get assistance from the robot wringer.
Maybe get assistance from the drive-as-thumb.
We gotta work with microwave ovens.
All the kitchen price warranties.
We organize these refrigerators.
We organize these color TVs.
See the little robot from the Whimsey park and rakeoff.
Yeah, Baron, he’s the compere.
That little robot has his own safe server,
That little robot, he’s a racist square.
We gotta work with microwave ovens.
All the kitchen price warranties.
We organize these refrigerators.
We organize these color TVs.
You should’a learned to spray the flamethrower.
You should’a learned to spray those guns.
Look at that robot, got some fusion in her power.
Yeah, wow, part of Annex One.
And who’s up there, what’s that, some battle noises?
You’re hangin’ round this tourney like a detainee.
Oh, don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
You’ll be funny ‘bout somethin’, and the bots are free.
We gotta work with microwave ovens.
All the kitchen price warranties.
We organize these refrigerators.
We organize these color TVs.
Listen up.
Now don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it.
We’ll get the windups from the note-a-ree.
Don’t be smirkin’, that’s the way to do it,
Funny ‘bout somethin’ and the bots are free.
Just be funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free.
Just be funny ‘bout somethin’, and your bots are free
(I want the, I want the, I want the note-a-ree…)
—from “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits.
Well-done!
Wonderful!
Well, I couldn’t get anything done on Monday ’cause my phone / cable / net access was cut off till mid-afternoon, after which time my life tends to be busy. (Retirement does *not* give you more time for anything.)
Oh, that’s very good.
“Over the Idaho border” . . . but before that, over a chunk of Olympic peninsula, over Puget Sound, over the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia urban and suburban corridor, over the whole damn Cascade mountain range, and over a zillion miles of western Washington state, first.
Do these people think they’re in Spokane or something?
Hope they’re wound real tight, ’cause they’ve got over 200 miles to go.
You could say that about practically any character in “Skin Horse.”
Tigerlily Jones has made a wind-up teleportation device once before…
So, she builds one with a bunch of coathangers, sends herself over with a bunch more and builds another . . , yeah, I guess it could work.
“A Queen of Lovetron is not bound by space or time!”
Actually, now I’m wondering — does Tip still have the coathanger-teleporter in his closet, or did it destroy itself in the process of teleporting Tigerlily, or did Tip dismantle it because he needed room for clothing, duh?
This Robot Racism remind me to a chapter of ‘Zannen Jokanbu Black General-san’
where a Robot Yakuza (yes, that a thing in that manga) express his concern that his underlings (robot too) likes ‘Real Robot’ more than ‘Super Robot’.
Did the Robot Yakuza ever have a turf war with the Robot Mafia (the entire Robot Mafia)?
No Robo Mafia yet.
Chapter in question:
https://mangadex.org/chapter/430682/1
Robots being racist to other robots is the sort of idea that I wish I had come up with.
Tigerlily is hardly one to talk about robot racism, given that just a few years ago, she was proclaiming a non-windup-robot enslavement and genocide.
“Crack that unicorn back”
Get on up
“Crack that unicorn back”
SLAP!
“Crack that unicorn back”
Huh!
“Crack that unicorn back”
I love that, in nearly any other webcomic, “I built a funkbot armada to fight notaries” would be an unexplained Noodle Incident gag. But not here!
You can kinda tell that Skin Horse is entering endgame through the sheer number of callbacks in the recent storylines.
hey, spoilers!
Hardly all that can be. Did Claire Connelly and Zombie Ben Franklin ever pursue their relationship? Did Dr. Haller ever catch up with Mr. Berk? With the safe house found deserted, what happened to the other cobras?
I love that our “innocent teenager” doesn’t even bat an eye at it
She’s more like 21 or 22, but yeah. Of course, her mom is in some kind of espionage-ish work, so she probably doesn’t bat an eye at much.
She’s been chasing X-files stuff for a while, including a trip through Anasigma’s headquarters. Not to mention dealing with a precog boyfriend.
My favorite of those were Unity’s Panda Incidents.
I always read on this site anyway, so it doesn’t make much difference to me, but it may interest you to know that goComics still doesn’t have today’s comic up.
I do know it was in my goComics e-mail this morning.
You say it was in your e-mail? Because it wasn’t in mine. And Saturday’s isn’t in my email either. And the most recent one on the goComics website (as of 4:30am) is from May 2nd.
My mistake; it wasn’t in mine, either, I was looking at the printout from the day before.
It isn’t in this morning’s e-mail, either.
Don’t get me wrong… I wouldn’t put it past GoComics to screw up that badly.
Yeah, definitely. Look at all their comics in repeats that freeze up for months at a time.